Optimal Real-world Viewing.
Is there an optimal place to position yourself in a three-dimensional world to put the visual information of interest (an object, a scene) in your visual field for subsequent processing?
How does the physical size of objects in the world constrain the distribution of experience over viewpoint and scale with object categories?
Konkle & Oliva. Normative representation of objects: Evidence for an ecological bias in perception and memory. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society, 2007.
Konkle & Oliva. Canonical visual size for real-world objects: Evidence from reconstructive memory, imagery, and perceptual preferences. (submitted).
Memory Capacity and Experience.
How does experience with objects shape our ability to remember them?
How does conceptual structure of object categories and perceptual features of visual objects contribute to memory for an object?
Brady, Konkle, Alvarez, & Oliva. Visual long-term memory has a massive capacity for object details. PNAS 2008.
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Brady, Konkle, Oliva, & Alvarez. Detecting changes in real-world objects: The relationship between visual long-term memory and change blindness. Communicative and Integrative Biology 2009.
Brady, Konkle, & Alvarez. Compression in visual short-term memory: using statistical regularities to form more efficient memory representations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2009.
Konkle, Brady, Alvarez, & Oliva. Conceptual knowledge supports perceptual detail in visual long-term memory. (submitted).
Motion Processing across Modalities.
Are the neural representations of visual and tactile motion independent or shared?
How does adaptation modify the neural system? What is the relationship between adaptation and encoding?
Konkle, Wang, Hayward, & Moore. Motion Aftereffects Transfer Between Touch and Vision. Current Biology 2009.
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Konkle & Moore. What can crossmodal aftereffects reveal about neural representation and dynamics? Communicative and Integrative Biology. 2009.
Carter, Konkle, Wang, Hayward, & Moore. Tactile Rivalry Demonstrated with an Ambiguous Apparent-Motion Quartet. Current Biology 2008.
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